[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I loved DA:O. It was far from perfect, but at the time it was the closest we could get to a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Icewind Dale - dark fantasy, tactical combat, and a decent story.

Then DA 2 came along and it felt like an entirely different series. I didn't get it at the time because of how simplified and arcadey it looked. I picked it up on some deep sale and got bored of it pretty quickly.

DA:I seemed to be trending back in the right direction with a bit more tactical combat. I never finished it but it was decent enough on a sale. This looks like they doubled down on DA 2 here and...meh.

Doubtful I would have gotten it anyway since it's EA but I would have loved to have been proven wrong.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think some of the later stuff aged well if you're into point and click adventure games and some "retro" looking graphics. But the early ones might be a little janky for anyone who didn't live through that era.

You have to type in the actions you want to do and they looked like this:

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I hope this is cool to post here. It's a Backerkit project for a documentary about Sierra On-line. I grew up playing these and figured there might be some other old farts around who would be interested.

I remember Kings Quest 6 blowing my mind when it came out and I only had the floppy disk version. I never knew until I was much older that there was a CD-ROM version with full voice over.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 9 points 3 weeks ago

Been rocking Pop! with a 3080 for about 3 months with only a few minor gripes. Darktide had some weird tiny lag in it somewhere that I couldn't nail down but every other game I've played has worked just fine. And for some reason if I connect to mullvad using their app before opening Firefox, it'll lag out for 10-15 secs.

Everything else has been rock solid. I'd prefer KDE to Gnome, but with Dash to Panel, the Pop Gnome is good enough for now. Cosmic should be out relatively soon. I tinkered with Nobara and KDE plasma 6 for a few days but it was nowhere near as stable, so I came right back to Pop.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

I was all set to correct you. Never realized the Manfred Mann version was a cover.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

I feel like they did add that option but it was well after I finished it with the same problem.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

Children in wombs can't use Facebook or Instagram [yet]

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

I've been using Pop for a few months as my daily driver to replace Windows. It had been a few years since I'd used Linux and I wanted something stable for Nvidia drivers. I've had next to no issues with it.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

I think the "Microsoft dilemma" is just called capitalism. If you're not making all the money, you're losing the game.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Didn't stop them from collecting $3 billion in tax breaks though

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" sent me down a rabbit hole of reading up on all the loopholes, I forget what they're called now, but they're pretty fascinating.

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

Did this one Halloween night in college. It was terrifying.

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